Thanks for the info. I'll check out the packages from symas.

Rob

Peter Schober wrote:
> rob,
 >
> * Rob Myroon <rob.myroon at tartan.ca> [2006-06-06 22:08]:
>> I am using Redhat es 4. I am using openldap 2.2.13 which appears to
>> be the latest release from Redhat.
> 
> redhat is infamous for providing ancient OpenLDAP releases.
> all other things being equal I suggest you get the lastest OpenLDAP
> distribution ("CDS Silver") from symas.com, packaged for the OS of
> your choice and keep up to date with their packages.
> 
> 
>> Should I be using a more recent version of openldap anyways?
> 
> newer releases tend to have fewer bugs, better data integrity,
> significant perfomance improvements and -- most importantly -- are
> supported by the openldap community. every question about percieved
> erroneous behaviour of slapd regarding any version a bit behind will
> probably get you "did you try the latest release?" for an "answer".
> 
> but I guess you used this "Enterprise" distro for a reason (at least
> people some do) so swapping part of the software for newer packages
> from third parties will probably not be helpful wrt your support
> contract...?
> since the upgrade will not fix M$-Outlook's behaviour there's no point
> upgrading. unless you need other fixes that only come with later
> OpenLDAP releases, of course.
> 
> regards,
> -p.schober
>